Have you heard about the Succinctly Series? Syncfusion has produced a number of free e-Books on various subjects ranging from source control to jQuery to HTTP. I highly recommend you pick up these free books. You’ll have to register but it’s worth it. This is an unsolicited review.

So far I’ve read the Knockout.js Succintly, ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Websites Succinctly, PDF Succinctly and JavaScript Succinctly. They are great beginner books and very quick reads especially if you are beyond the basic level. They average around 60 pages per book with 150 pages being the biggest I’ve seen.

They seem to be rolling out a new book every few months. So far they have: